Exchanging a car for a truck: proven methods

To exchange various things has always been inherent in man. In any newspaper you will find ads like: "I am changing a two-room apartment for a one-room apartment with an additional payment," and promotions often take place in communication stores: "Bring an old phone and get a discount on a new one." In the same way, you can exchange cars - this service is well known to everyone and is called Trade-In.

By Trade-In, you bring your old car to the showroom, it is evaluated, you choose a new car and pay only the difference in price. You can exchange not only cars, but also trucks, you can also exchange trucks for cars or vice versa - it all depends on whether this or that salon offers these services.

Trade-In has a number of advantages and disadvantages, we will list them so that Vodi.su readers can make the right decisions.

pros

The most important advantage is speed, you save time.

Here's how it all happens:

• find a salon where you can exchange a truck for a passenger car, specify the conditions;
• drive there in your truck;
• he is driven to a diagnostic station, his condition is checked and the cost is announced;
• then you conclude an agreement and the specified amount goes towards the cost of a new car.

Here in the cabin you can choose any model. If you don't have enough money, you can get a loan. Well, the salon is your old car, which they put up for sale.

To make an exchange, you need to present a small package of documents:

• data sheet;
• registration certificate;
• power of attorney (if you are not the owner);
• personal passport.

Thus, in just a couple of hours, you can transfer from an old Gazelle or some Chinese on-board FAW to drive a brand new Lada Kalina or a Chinese budget crossover (the funds received from the exchange are unlikely to be enough for something more expensive).

Disadvantages

The disadvantages of this system are also quite obvious - no one is going to work at a loss and your old car will be valued much cheaper than its real market value. How the received remuneration will differ from the real cost depends on the particular salon. This difference is due to the fact that certain funds will be invested in the car for repairs, so you can safely minus from 15 to 40 percent.

In addition, trucks during operation are “killed” much more strongly than cars, so most salons are unlikely to take on trucks that are more than 10 years old.

If, for example, you have a GAZ-3309, which has been out for 8 years and is in the appropriate condition, then they can offer very, very little for it - 50-60% of the market value. Please note that the market value of a GAZ-3307 or GAZ-3309 of 2007 will be approximately 200-400 thousand.

The second important point is the limited range of new cars that fall under the Trade-In program. So, not all salons accept trucks. And if they offer, then you can take in return, for example, the domestic UAZ Hunter or VAZ. It should be said that in most salons you can choose from used cars, in which case the choice will be much wider.

Nevertheless, pay attention to one important positive characteristic - all cars not only undergo diagnostics, but also undergo a thorough legal check by VIN code, so no one will slip you problematic cars - stolen or credited. Also in the salon you can be offered a surcharge in case of an unequal exchange.

Ad exchange

If you do not want to lose 20-50 percent of the cost of the car, and are ready to spend your personal time, then the most suitable way is to search for ads for the exchange of trucks for cars. On any automotive site you will find a huge number of such ads, just enter a query in a search engine.

There are certain legal subtleties here, namely: how to formalize an exchange deal. The easiest way is to exchange powers of attorney.

However, we are all well aware of the negative aspects of this approach:

• the power of attorney is convenient for fraudsters, they can revoke it at any time;
• you remain the actual owner of the vehicle and all fines and taxes will be sent to your address;
• the rights to the car can be claimed by the spouse or children of the former owner.

Therefore, the most optimal option is registration through a contract of sale. Let's take a simple example: you give Gazelle-Business for 350 thousand and instead get a Volkswagen Polo for 450. Two contracts are drawn up for these amounts, and you simply pay the difference in cash. Cars are re-registered in accordance with the vehicle registration regulations. Since November 2013, we have already talked about how to properly register cars on Vodi.su.

Well, the third option is barter agreement. The form of this agreement will be provided to you by any notary, although notarization is not mandatory. An exchange agreement is drawn up in the same way as a sale and purchase agreement, but with the difference that two cars fit into it, their characteristics are indicated.

An exchange agreement is suitable for different situations:

• key-to-key exchange - that is, equivalent;
• exchange with a surcharge - unequal;
• proxy exchange and so on.

The agreement prescribes the conditions for the exchange and the procedure for transferring funds. After signing the document in triplicate and transferring all the necessary documents, including the diagnostic card, you can start re-registering the car in your name. You don't need to deregister the car.

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